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Editor's Note: William Gilly , a professor of biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, embarked on new expedition this month to study jumbo squid in the Gulf of California on the National Science Foundation–funded research vessel New Horizon. This is his fourth blog post about the trip. [More]

In cities where the water coming from pipes is anything but reliable, a new service alerts people so they don't have to sit at home all day waiting for the tap to turn on. In many cities in developing countries, residents have piped water supplies. But there's a catch: the water is only available through the pipes for a few hours at a time, and people have no way of knowing when that will be

By Amber Dance of Nature magazine Those wanting to raise awareness about a rare disease will be able to take advantage of an initiative being launched later this year: a website that connects research projects with members of the public who can donate just a few dollars to help to develop cures. The plan, called the Global Genes Fund, will "democratize the research proposal game", says Irwin Feller, an emeritus professor of the economics of science and technology at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. The idea has been developed by the Children's Rare Disease Network, a non-profit organization based in Dana Point, California.

Nokia's market share in all phone sales in Australia for the first quarter of 2011 was 24.6%--great, if it hadn't been 49.5% in the first quarter of 2010. Nokia's market share has halved.

The U.S. Supreme Court's 7-2 ruling Monday (pdf) that California cannot regulate the sale or rental of violent video games to minors is the latest chapter in the long-simmering debate over the impact of aggression in the virtual world on children's behavior in the real world. The high court's ruling is based on law and politics; it noted that states don't have the right to restrict children's First Amendment rights

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By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Amateur historians and astronomers are buzzing with intrigue over allegations that the legendary US astronomer Edwin Hubble, after whom NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is named, may have actively censored the work of a competitor to advance his own career. Professional historians are demanding further evidence, but advocates of the position are already urging NASA to name a future space mission after the slighted researcher

It was an accidental mutation of the Tetrahymena thermophila (left), a pond organism, during a lab experiment that revealed that the enzyme telomerase keeps the protective caps on the end of chromosomes long. Speaking at the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau, Elisabeth Blackburn compared the caps, called telomeres , to the tips on the end of a shoelace that prevent it from fraying. Telomeres protect DNA during cell division

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LivingSocial has acquired popular pan-Arab coupon site GoNabit for an undisclosed sum, which is good news for local startups and quite bad news for Groupon's struggling Middle East operations. LivingSocial announced the acquisition of pan-Arab deals site GoNabit for an undisclosed sum today

One in five Americans has HIV and doesn't know it, situation government hopes testing awareness day will address

Think you know all you need to about HIV testing and AIDS? You might be surprised at what you don't know

As Operation Enduring Freedom, the war on terror in Afghanistan, winds down and some 33,000 U.S.

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